The first table below looks at the demand for SQL Server 2008 skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SQL Server 2008 over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the Halifax region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Rank 17 28 19
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -9
Contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 4 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 3.448% 1.304% 3.390%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 57.14% 10.34% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
Average daily rate £313 - £318
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
- +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year
- +4.83%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
7 29 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 6.034% 12.61% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 11
Average daily rate £313 £420 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.59% +12.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.90% -14.61%
SQL Server 2008
West Yorkshire

SQL Server 2008
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Halifax region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Halifax SQL Server 2008 Jobs Demand Trend

SQL Server 2008
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SQL Server 2008 across the Halifax region.

Halifax SQL Server 2008 Daily Rate Trend

SQL Server 2008
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax region citing SQL Server 2008 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SQL Server 2008.

1 13 (100.00%) SQL
1 13 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 13 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (92.31%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (92.31%) .NET
2 12 (92.31%) SOAP
2 12 (92.31%) XML
2 12 (92.31%) .NET Framework
2 12 (92.31%) WCF
2 12 (92.31%) C#
3 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC
3 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 9 (69.23%) Razor View Engine
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
5 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (7.692%) Migration
5 1 (7.692%) ERP
5 1 (7.692%) ETL
5 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
5 1 (7.692%) SAP
5 1 (7.692%) Data Migration

SQL Server 2008
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax region citing SQL Server 2008 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SQL Server 2008. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (92.31%) .NET
1 12 (92.31%) SOAP
1 12 (92.31%) XML
1 12 (92.31%) .NET Framework
1 12 (92.31%) WCF
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 9 (69.23%) Razor View Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (30.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (92.31%) C# Developer
2 12 (92.31%) XML Developer
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Developer
3 1 (7.692%) SQL Server Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (7.692%) Data Analysis
2 1 (7.692%) Migration
2 1 (7.692%) ERP
2 1 (7.692%) ETL
2 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
1 13 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 12 (92.31%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.692%) SAP
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